Plan MR's Future

What could be more fun than a planning meeting, right? No, really! Merrymeeting Resilience has some great ideas for making our region an even better place to live in the challenging years to come, but we need people to help us carry them out. Or to come up with even better ideas and help carry them out. Please join us as we discuss such things as local currency, community power generation, rebuilding the local foodshed, paint recycling, a Transition film festival, and whatever projects you’d like to take on.

The Transition Towns and Permaculture movements are positive, creative, community-led responses to the challenges of climate change, economic uncertainty,and the pressing need for sustainable energy.

The momentum began building with the advent ofPermaculturein the seventies. Permaculture isthe design science rooted intheobservation of nature’s eco-systems.Its purpose is to create an approach to living that emulatestheenduranceand resilience of those natural systems.

WhilePermaculture is often thought of as amethodof gardening,it is actuallya way of thinking about, designing,and implementingsustainable lifestyles.It has emerged from thatmindset and is applied to ourhomes and propertiesand then extendedoutward,naturally including a systems approach to gardening as well.

Transition Towns were born from Permaculture.Often, at least one person on the steering committee ofaTransition Town hascompleteda Permaculture DesignCertification Course.ATransition Townis apermaculture design applied toan entirecommunity - and the focusison ACTION. The lessons we learn in our own backyards through Permaculture design and practice can be applied towholetowns, states, bioregions, and nations. Whether it's our backyard or our town, theoutcome is an approach to life that nurtures the Earth and all beings, builds a healthy local economy, celebrates daily life, and is ultimately independent of fossil fuels.We canapplyPermaculture principalsto any system - transport, food distribution, energy, governance, education, communication -we'll always get the same result:strong and resilient communities!

Ourgoalas Merrymeeting Permaculture & Transitionis to purposefully transition as aregionfrom oil dependency to local resilience. A resilient community generates the resources necessary to sustain itself and respond fluidly to external events.

Joinin. Share your visions. Discover your role in building a positive future foryourself andour community in theMerrymeeting Bayarea.Whetheryour interests arein appling Permaculture toyour home and property or to working towardsimplementingany aspects ofTransition in your community, there is a place for you here.